Works pay rise 'to cost $8.7M’
| PA Nelson An interpretation of the , Economic Stabilisation Regulations, 197.3. concerning payment for pieceworkers could cost the freezing industry a total of $8.75M. the [Court of Appeal has been 'told. Counsel for the New Zealand freezing companies (Mr M. J. O’Brien) was presenting submissions in an appeal against a judgment of Mr ; Justice Ongley in the Supreme Court. It held that a decision of the Wages Tribunal on April 26. 1974 was invalid. ' The Wages Tribunal is named as first respondent, and the New Zealand Meat Workers’ and Related Trades [Union as second respondent ;in the appeal, decision on [which was reserved. Mr O’Brien said the issue was the interpretation of the regulations, and whether pieceworkers in the industry ! were entitled to an increase of pay limited to 55.80 a [week, or 8.5 per cent of | their pay. ; The latter would cost the industry another S6M up to I August, -976, and another [52,750,000 since then, he said.
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